A controller responsible for maintaining the rules for defining the integrity of PIDs within a PID Scheme. These rules may include setting standards for lexical formats, algorithms and protocols to ensure global uniqueness, together with setting quality of service conditions to enforce compliance to the rules. PID Authorities may be organisations (e.g. DONA), which enforce control over a PID infrastructure. A Persistent Identifier (PID) policy for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) [42] also allow Authorities which do not have a central control (for example Software Heritage persistent identifiers and W3C’s Decentralised Identifiers), but provide a community standardisation mechanism that specifies the conformance of PIDs to a PID Scheme.

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